The British provinces in India just before independence were primarily eleven in number: Bengal, Bombay, Madras, United Provinces, Punjab, Bihar, Central Provi…

What to write on Srinagar? The current political history is well-known and the city (and the valley of Kashmir) are so conflicted, that even this apolitical st…

There are several places globally that have a divine connotation to them, named after a certain celestial realm. In Hinduism, there's Amaravati (located at…

When Himachal Pradesh was in the process of attaining statehood, it stood out as one of the few territories that were geographically fragmented, separated by d…

When the European colonists started populating the coast of India with their trade factories, along with business and commerce came one of the most dramatic pa…

Madras—a former name of a city and a province—has been associated with numerous historical entities. While the Aravidus , Nayakas , Udaiyars , and Zamorins ru…

During the era of missionaries and religious conversions, not all efforts were successful. In regions that were extremely conservative and resistant to foreign…